Lean Supply Chain Management Certification
by The Leading Edge Group

ALC has partnered with Leading Edge to distribute the International Lean Supply Chain Management Certification program. These training courses have been developed in conjunction with International Universities, Lean Practitioners, and International Professional Institutes in Engineering and Supply Chain Management, and provide a new standard for Lean Supply Chain Management Courses and Certification. This accredited educational program can ultimately lead to a degree in Quality Management. Courses are delivered via distance education and on-line learning modules so individual students anywhere in the world can participate.

Supply Chain Excellence: A Handbook for Dramatic Improvement Using the SCOR Model
by Peter Bolstorff, Robert Rosenbaum

The Supply Chain Council (SCC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing best practices in supply chain management. But until now, there have been no books available based on these preferred techniques. Supply Chain Excellence gives professionals implementing new supply chain projects a clear, step-by-step guide to adopting the accepted and proven methodologies developed by the SCC. This book uses the council's Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) Model. Using a unique SCOR Project Roadmap, Supply Chain Excellence is an instruction manual for achieving supply chain success. Provides the reader with an optimal path for improving their Supply Chain and reveals the easy-to-understand methods/considerations for creating dramatic improvement - and not in theory but in practice! Great for a practitioner, a consultant, and a student...

Essentials of Supply Chain Management
by Michael Hugos

This practical guide describes how the supply chain operates and discusses the issues and techniques that are relevant for companies seeking to improve the management of their supply chains. Organized using the features of the Essentials series, this easy-to-use guide contains tips and techniques for maximizing supply chain innovation strategies, as well as real-world examples developed from working with companies such as Johnson Wax, Starbucks, Borg-Warner, and Premier Health Care. Supply chain expert Michael Hugos analyzes the components of a well designed and managed supply chain, explains the metrics involved in measuring performance, and presents a pragmatic approach to designing and building supply chain systems. Full of valuable tips, techniques, illustrative real-world examples, exhibits, and best practices, this handy and concise paperback will help you stay up to date on the newest thinking, strategies, developments, and technologies in supply chain management.

Strategic Supply Chain Management
by Shoshanah Cohen, Joseph Roussel

The authoritative, all-in-one reference and guidebook for creating value and competitive advantage for each core supply chain process: plan, source, make, deliver, and return. Written by two consultants from global supply chain leader and innovator PRTM--creators of the PACE® product development framework as well as the industry-standard SCOR reference model--this authoritative book helps you understand the core disciplines that arise from best practices and advanced systems in supply chain management. Those disciplines are:

View your supply chain as a strategic asset--and establish your organization's basis for competition, developing a supply chain strategy that supports it
Develop an end-to-end process architecture--and manage your business practices and supporting information systems to continuously address the needs of your organization
Design your organization for performance--and ensure you have the skills necessary to develop and manage the complex supply chains of the future
Build the right collaborative model--and continuously improve the state of your relationships with your supply chain partners
Use metrics to drive business success--and manage continuous improvement within the supply chain

Profit-Focused Supplier Management: How to Identify Risks and Recognize Opportunities
by Pirkko Ostring

Ostring addresses suppliers as ongoing business management opportunities. Discussions include why current and potential suppliers should be analyzed, how to choose which suppliers to analyze, how to create a corporate analysis, how to investigate what is behind financial figures, and how to analyze qualitative factors. Managing suppliers can contribute enormous savings to a company's bottom line, and few companies have done it better than Nokia. In Profit-Focused Supplier Management, Pirkko Ostring details for the first time the supplier management program that has helped make Nokia the world leader in mobile communications. Drawing from her experience at Nokia, Ostring reveals how to understand and maximize relationships with suppliers to help any company minimize risk and improve profitability in any industry.
Profit-Focused Supplier Management will motivate top management to uncover more information about their suppliers, enable purchasing managers to select better suppliers, and give business controllers a tool for limiting risks and improving their companies' financial standing.

Balanced Sourcing: Cooperation and Competition in Supplier Relationships
by Timothy M. Laseter

Laseter--of the world-renowned consulting firm Booz-Allen & Hamilton coined the term balanced sourcing to describe a model for ensuring competitive pricing from suppliers while simultaneously nurturing cooperative relationships. Drawing upon Booz-Allen's experiences with leading companies, Balanced Sourcing lays out the six organizational capabilities that make up the firm's field-tested strategy. Balanced Sourcing offers real-life lessons from around the world in such key areas as creating sourcing strategies, building and sustaining supplier relationships, and leveraging supplier innovation. Though it is written for senior executives who want to drive transformation in their organizations, Balanced Sourcing also provides practical advice to purchasing executives who want to understand their role in implementing the best practices of their profession.

Factory Toolbox – Quality Toolkit
by Superfactory

Quality Toolkit. This Toolkit is also included in the full Factory Toolbox and includes procedure templates, presentations, tools, and forms supporting the topic. Content includes ISO 9000, Workmanship standards, QA process, Supplier qualification, Inspection, Audits Quality manuals. After purchase you will be sent a link to download the 2.8meg zip file. More ToolKits
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Enterprise Excellence Series
by Superfactory

The Enterprise Excellence Series includes presentation modules covering Balanced Scorecard, Knowledge Management & Learning Organizations, E-Commerce, Job Design, Work Measurement, and Labor Standards, Human Factors, Outsourcing Strategies, Cost Accounting, Supply Chain Strategies, Capital Budgeting, Facility Location Strategies, Technology Assessment, Strategic Management, Forecasting, Planning, and Scheduling, and Project Management. More Business Presentations
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Supplier Management and Inventory Practices Training
by Automated Learning Corporation

ALC has LearnTech® training in Inventory Practices available in both LAN and web-based course formats.
A number of web-training courses are available for secure on-line purchase. ALC Products available to buy now on-line.